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A week or so before I went to New York, I got a call late one Friday from a friend of ours. She had been expecting to give birth any day (actually, a couple of days prior to that), so we expected the call to be the big news that her baby had been born. That wasn’t the case. But, she thought, since she was still pregnant with nothing to do, would I want to do a maternity shoot with her and her family the next day?

Of course!

We went to an old house in Manhattan for a fun shoot with her, her husband, and their daughter. I was apprehensive going into the shoot because I typically like to do my shooting outside, with all the wonderful natural light. I found, though, that there is lots of lovely light inside, too, so long as you know where to look. In this house, we started upstairs by a big window, moved our way to the staircase, and then eventually to the front room with its massive windows and yummy light.

Here are a few of my favorites:

I especially love the light on her belly in this one:

Their daughter, the lovely Miss M, was all too eager to get in on all the fun!

We got a couple of nice family portraits while we were there, too.

And, of course, we got some great belly shots:

Lotus, Charles, and little Miss M, I had such a fun time with you and your family! And it was great to get to see young Master S at conference this past weekend. All my best to you and your growing family!

And for anyone in the Wamego area (or within a reasonable drive thereof…Manhattan, Topeka, Junction City) who is expecting, please contact me to inquire about the possibility of getting your own maternity session done for free to help me build my portfolio!

This summer, while on vacation, I had the pleasure of meeting one of my sister’s friends, Jenny. At the time, she was about 35 weeks along in her first pregnancy and I had never shot a maternity session before, so I offered to shoot some images of her. Unfortunately, we couldn’t get our schedules to work so that both her and her husband, Rob, could be there, so we went ahead and did the session with just her (since a maternity session with just the husband doesn’t really have the same appeal).

She was a beautiful model to shoot and wonderfully open to my suggestions. Here are some of my favorite images from the session.

She was staying at her parents’ house at the time, and there was a super cool little spot in the dining room that we merrily took advantage of.

As we were shooting in her parents’ front yard, her sweet little sister came home.

My two most favorite images:

Thanks, Jenny! And Rob, I’m sorry we couldn’t quite meet up all three of us. I hope the little man arrived happy and healthy!